arbitrary characters in XML document?

[Cliff Draper]

Hi,  I have a question about dealing with multiple character sets.

I have an application where I want to store data in XML and retrieve
it later.  Now a good chunk of the data I want to store is coming
straight from the user and I have little control over exactly which
character set the user is using.  One of my users apparently tried
using 0x98 + 0x03 as an accented 'e'; I have no idea which character
set he used (and I don't care), but I still want to be able to store
it and parse it later.  When I parse it with expat with an
encoding="UTF-8", it complains that it's not well-formed.

Any ideas?
thanks,
-Cliff Draper
 cliffwd at forte.com

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